What your donation supports

The OpenSSL Foundation is committed to providing security and privacy tools to everyone, whoever they are, wherever they are, and whatever their personal beliefs. Donations provide the critical financial underpinning that allows us to continue improving the OpenSSL Library and sharing these tools with as many people as possible.

The OpenSSL Foundation relies on donations as its primary source of revenue. When you make a gift, you are investing in critical digital infrastructure that’s utilized by countless people around the world and helps create a more digitally secure future. Your gift will help the Foundation:

• Enable innovation, such as new features and functionality
• Ensure high-quality and predictable releases
• Support academics doing security research that will accelerate security improvements
• Build a thriving community who is continuously improving the OpenSSL Library
• Administer the Foundation’s operations, including legal and tax obligations

Cryptography is what we do, but protecting people’s privacy is why we do it. Whether you’re a software developer who’s intimately familiar with the OpenSSL Library or an average internet user who is passionate about online privacy as a human right, your gift to the OpenSSL Foundation will help protect data privacy and security for countless people around the world. Thank you to all of the donors and sponsors who make this work possible.